Weekend Photo & Part Of A Poem By Theodore Roethke

The Long Alley

A river glides out of the grass. A river or a serpent.
A fish floats belly upward,
Sliding through the white current,
Slowly turning,
Slowly.

The dark flows on itself. A dead mouth sings under an old tree.
The ear hears only in low places.
Remember an old sound.
Remember
Water.
..’

Theodore Roethke

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